Zora Mihailovich

Artist in Residence
Piano
zoramiha@hotmail.com
Todd Union 107B
http://www.sumarts.com/roster/mihailovich.html

Belgrade-born American pianist Zora Mihailovich has made a name for herself internationally as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, recording artist and educator.

Ms. Mihailovich has performed in recital and as orchestral soloist in major European and North American centers such as London's Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, and Brussels' Conservatoire Royal. She has collaborated with singers Giuseppe di Stefano, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda and Anna Moffo. Concert tours and festival appearances have also taken her to much of North America and both Western and Eastern Europe.

Numerous recordings by Zora Mihailovich can be found on Centaur, Yugoton, PGP-RTS, Virtuoso and Virtuoso Classics labels. Among her recent recordings are Anton Rubinstein Works for Piano (1995), Chopin Piano Sonatas No. 2 & No. 3 and Polonaises (1996), Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto and Franck's Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1998), Mozart's Piano Sonatas K. 282, K. 331 and K. 333 (1999), and Rachmaninov's 2nd Sonata, Six Musical Moments op. 16 , and Preludes (2000).

Her performances and recordings have delighted reviewers and peers. " …A genuine musician " exclaimed Brussels' Le Soir. Joan Chissell of The Times of London rhapsodized about her " lyrical sweetness, intimately eloquent phrasing, climaxes of starling intensity and many flashes of virtuosity…remarkable technique "." Uppermost among her assets is her large well-orchestrated sonority and her grasp of spanning architecture…superb technical abilities, bravura outbursts, dignity and power," raved Harris Goldsmith in the New York Concert Review, while Michael Ullman in Fanfare's September/October 2000 issue declared " Mihailovich is a wonderful Mozart player."

Taught first by her mother, Dobrila Mihailovich, she began her musical career at the tender age of five, with the J.C. Bach Double Piano Concerto . At 16, she made an acclaimed debut with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later, she became the youngest person ever to graduate from the Academy of Music in Belgrade. She completed her studies in Rome at the Academia di Musica Santa Cecilia with the renowned Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. From 1975 to 1989, she was Professor of Piano at the Belgrade Academy.

Moving to the U.S., she was a Guest Artist at the University of Southern California School of Music (1989, 1992, 1996). She has also been Guest Faculty Artist at California State University at Fullerton, and Guest Artist at the California Institute of Arts. As well, she has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona's School of Music in Tucson, and at the Uppsala School of Music in Sweden. At present, Ms. Mihailovich is Artist-in-Residence in the College Music Department at the University of Rochester. She has also been a judge for the Jeunesses Musicales International Piano Competition in Belgrade and the Concerto Competition in Los Angeles. As a Steinway Artist, she gives master classes in Europe and the U.S.